Cook: The Extraordinary Sea Voyages of Captain James Cook
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At a time when ships were routinely lost around the English coast, this son of a Yorkshire peasant made history by making geography - sailing through southern seas previously known only as a blank space on the maps, charting the eastern Australian coast, circumnavigating New Zealand and putting many Pacific islands on the map, exploring the northwest coast of North America.
His epic journeys captured the imagination of his time, introducing a European public to heretofore unheard-of animals and plants, a barren Arctic and Antarctic, and an erotically charged tropical world. His lieutenantsncluding George Vancouver and William Bligh - became legendary captains in their own right. Exploits among Aleuts, Maoris, Tahitians, and many other peoples combined to make Cook a celebrity, a legend, and a hero.
